Feedback on FS Comment Experiment

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

11/08/2008 02:13:28 AM · #1

Greetings. Now that I have done two Free Studies worth of my comment experiment, and it seems to be a bit of a success, it is time to get feedback from you, the loyal submitter.

What I am looking for is HONEST feedback on these comments that I make. This feedback can be good, it can be bad, it can be nonchalant. Whatever. I am looking to gather information so I can open myself up to any changes that I can think about making, or whether or not I should even continue doing it.

So, open up your hearts and minds and give me what-for on this experiment. Should you not know what the hell I'm talking about, please go to my Comments Made section and browse through some of the comments there to get up to speed. Only the ones made on Free Study challenges are applicable.

I would just ask that you observe a couple of simple suggestions:

1) If someone is being critical or negative in their honest evaluation of my Free Study commenting, that is their right. I don't need anyone jumping to my defense.

2) I reserve the right to continue on as I have been regardless of what is said here. I will be listening closely though.

3) Please be as honest as you can, but try and stay away from making suggestions on style, content, etc. I'm looking more for reactions on if you like these or not or how you feel about what they may or may not contribute to the site.

Anyway, hopefully at least some people will respond and I can get a better idea of where this kind of thing sits with the people of this site.

*EDIT* You do NOT need to have received a comment from me to post here. Everyone's opinion is welcome.

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 02:18:11.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

11/08/2008 03:24:45 AM · #2

I have to say that your comment on my FS image made me laugh...BUT....it also made hubby(the model) laugh as well. So that to me is worth continuing what you are doing.

I just noticed that the thumbnail number includes '666'....hmmmmm!

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

In the final test of powers, Matchhead shocked and awed the underworld when he destroyed Pinhead by doing what was considered impossible. He licked the blue out of the flame from a candle.

It was a momentous day.

andrewt

Nikon D810

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR

11/08/2008 03:41:40 AM · #3

Well I love my comment. Showed my wife & we had a great laugh over it. Fits the image perfectly.... so don't stop what you are doing.

Originally posted by K10DGuy:
He chatted with her for what seemed like an hour. She said all the right things. She moved like him. She smiled when he did. She flapped her wings daintily at him when he flapped at her. He was in love, and when he bent down shyly for a kiss, she bent towards him too.

When it was over, and he was flying home, one thought was on his mind. He hadn't expected it to be so...

Wet.

aplomb76

Canon EOS-1D Mark IIn

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

11/08/2008 04:01:29 AM · #4

I liked the comment you gave me in the September free study, and I enjoy reading the comments you give others. Please continue.

roba

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

11/08/2008 04:47:59 AM · #5

Well, based solely on the fact that the FS scores thread seems to be 50% made up of "where the heck is my K10DGuy comment?" queries... I'd say it's gone over quite well. :O)

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

11/08/2008 06:06:36 AM · #6

Well, you left another eerily, uncanny comment that definitely resonated with me.

Keep up the fantastic work IMO.

I also thoroughly enjoy reading the comments you leave on others' images.

I'm firing up the thread that I started last month so that people can post 'em up!

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/08/2008 07:37:20 AM · #7

One of the things that got me into photography when I was a teenager was enjoying making up a story in my mind to go with a picture. This was something started for me by a fifth grade teacher. Once a week she passed out a sheet of paper with a picture at the top. She would give us each time to write a short story and we would read them out loud to see who came up with the best story. You seem to have a knack for it and I for one enjoy it very much. Keep up the good work!!

Yo_Spiff

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

11/08/2008 08:41:46 AM · #8

Some very creative storytelling. (How the heck do you come up with these ideas?!) I think you are refining the art. You have certainly established a reputation around here pretty quick, and it may encourage more commenting.

I haven't had the chance to read them all yet, but your comment on this one seemed to fit with my own comment, suggesting that it was too perfect and must be an illustration.

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 08:50:06.

KarenNfld

11/08/2008 10:13:48 AM · #9

I've never gotten a comment from you but I'd love to. I enjoy reading your comments on other people's photos and when I go back and look at the challenge entries after voting I check to see if you have made comments on certain photos. I'd say keep up the great work!

Ivo

11/08/2008 10:41:30 AM · #10

I received and read through some of your comments and though I'd agree they are imaginative, I'd say you try too hard. Much the same as blowing out the candles on someone else's birthday cake, your comments desperately seek notice at the expense of the photo being mocked. That said, is it a success? It sure got you attention in the forums and now a ribbon would balance it off perfectly. Good luck.

11/08/2008 03:40:42 PM · #11

First, and only, bump for the daytime crowd.

11/08/2008 06:09:32 PM · #12

Well, images trigger emotions and thoughts and stories in viewers, whether it reminds them of something from their pasts, or (in your case) plants the seeds of a new story. Connecting with viewer of our images is one of the reasons many of us take the images in the first place, so seeing your comments is not only fun, but enlightening. Just how differently (or not) your connection to an image is with mine is intriguing.

Based on the comments in return this time and the last, I would say you have only encountered 2 or 3 "humorless" folks that took the comments as mocking. I guess the "what's up with the red eye?" and "is the fish biting back?" comments are appropriately constructive and serious, while your comment about a monster attack was viscous mocking? And the Rainier Matte Painting comment was in line with other comments, for example, but fun and harmless at the same time.

Stick with it, I say. If you do, over time, build up a list of usernames that find your thoughts unwelcome, I suppose you could fall back to posting after rollover, so that you could skip over those few folks who take offense. But that doesn't really seem necessary to me.

11/08/2008 06:13:27 PM · #13

Originally posted by chromeydome:

Stick with it, I say. If you do, over time, build up a list of usernames that find your thoughts unwelcome, I suppose you could fall back to posting after rollover, so that you could skip over those few folks who take offense. But that doesn't really seem necessary to me.

Since I've decided to stop voting on the Free Studies as it tends to mess with the objective view of the photos, I've been considering doing some kind of "opt-out" system, where people can PM me if they get a comment and don't want it and I can remove it before roll-over.

Just one of many thoughts, and this is the kind of thing I was hoping for more feedback for, is to put thoughts and ideas like this together.

Thank you for your thoughts.

*edit* I'm burned out. Could I have said "thoughts" more times in one paragraph?

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 18:16:35.

11/08/2008 06:31:52 PM · #14

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

*edit* I'm burned out. Could I have said "thoughts" more times in one paragraph?

"I just had a think. No Wait, a thought... Ya know, for a minute there, I thought I had a think."

paraphrase from an old BC (not

BeeCee) comic strip :-)

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 18:32:07.

11/08/2008 06:33:06 PM · #15

Originally posted by chromeydome:

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

*edit* I'm burned out. Could I have said "thoughts" more times in one paragraph?

"I just had a think. No Wait, a thought... Ya know, for a minute there, I thought I had a think."

paraphrase from an old BC (not BeeCee) comic strip :-)

Wow. BC.

I haven't thought about that comic strip since I played the old late 80's/early 90s PC game based on it. Man, that was a horrible game.

Ivo

11/08/2008 06:40:35 PM · #16

Originally posted by chromeydome:

I find it arogant that your rendition of appropriate commenting and "humor" is deemed to be a guage of how others should receive observations of their work. Furthermore the creation of a "list" of "humorless" members not desiring to receive universally funny comments is just plain "dumb".

I was PM'd by K10DGuy and offered clarification on my posting. I did not isolate my observation to his comment on my "Red Eyed" photo but rather made a statement which was well balanced and encouraging of the time he spends on each photo he decides to comment on.

As it is his choice to comment how he wishes, it is also my/our choice to receive it a manner I/we see fit. Please refrain from pontificating on how we all should interpret "humor" and then furthermore suggest those who disagree with your views are to be isolated.

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

11/08/2008 08:44:42 PM · #17

Originally posted by Ivo:

Originally posted by chromeydome:
. If you do, over time, build up a list of usernames that find your thoughts unwelcome, I suppose you could fall back to posting after rollover, so that you could skip over those few folks who take offense. But that doesn't really seem necessary to me.

... and then furthermore suggest those who disagree with your views are to be isolated.

You misunderstood me, sir. I suggested nothing of the sort. I DID suggest that if K10DGuy received feedback from photographers who found his unique approach to commentary unwelcome or offensive, then he could consider keeping track of that, and change when he posted the comments so that he could refrain from commenting on those individuals' images--sort of an opt-out approach.

This would be, in fact, considerate of those hypothetical folks, and in no way would be isolation, much less isolation because they don't somehow agree with me--I am not in that loop at all. Quite the opposite: my suggestion was entirely aimed at recognizing, respecting, and accommodating others who might receive observations of their work differently than he intended.

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 20:53:57.

colorcarnival

Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital

11/08/2008 08:58:34 PM · #18

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

What I am looking for is HONEST feedback on these comments that I make. This feedback can be good, it can be bad, it can be nonchalant. Whatever.

I almost bought some Whiskas today.... :D

11/08/2008 09:00:16 PM · #19

Originally posted by colorcarnival:

Originally posted by K10DGuy:
What I am looking for is HONEST feedback on these comments that I make. This feedback can be good, it can be bad, it can be nonchalant. Whatever.

I almost bought some Whiskas today.... :D

*snicker*

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

11/08/2008 09:03:11 PM · #20

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

*snicker*

Dang it, now I am craving a candy bar....

colorcarnival

Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital

11/08/2008 09:04:19 PM · #21

Originally posted by chromeydome:

Originally posted by K10DGuy:

*snicker*

Dang it, now I am craving a candy bar....

mmmm chocolate...

11/08/2008 09:07:44 PM · #22

"Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't"

"BeeeeCAAAUUUUSE sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

11/08/2008 09:11:29 PM · #23

Walks over to the freezer to get out Ice Cream full of chocolate and nuts

Thanks a lot.

colorcarnival

Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital

11/08/2008 09:12:02 PM · #24

Originally posted by chromeydome:

"Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't"

"BeeeeCAAAUUUUSE sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"

lol you just killed my craving for chocolate... coconut.. bleah

i am sorry for derailing the thread lol...